Dear Mozilla: Why Thunderbird 78.x is both great and awful (PGP)
I am writing this post because Thunderbird 78.x has issues for advanced PGP users
How to edit systemd service files the right way with overrides
In an earlier tutorial, I showed you how to obfuscate Tor bridges with obfs4proxy which required editing the Tor service files. The official Torproject documentation stated, that you needed to edit the systemd service files and change a variable in each, to allow the usage of privileged ports. So, I [...]
How to use FRITZ!Box with Namecheap Dynamic DNS (IPv4)
This is a quick guide on how to set up Namecheap Dynamic DNS on your FRITZ!Box.
How to cleanly uninstall applications from your Mac
If you ever used a Mac and had to install an application, you probably noticed that often there's no installer unlike on Windows. You just drag and drop the application to your /Applications folder. The downside is, there's often also no uninstaller for those applications. Now, you might say "just [...]
How to force checking for updates on Mac
Since macOS is a modern OS, and since modern means removing all user controls, you can't manually press any button to force check for updates on a Mac. But there's a neat trick to force a check anyway! Using the terminal. On your keyboard, press command and space to bring [...]
How To Try Windows Server 2019 For Free (And Upgrade To Full Version)
Note that this guide also applies to Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10. You might have to evaluate Windows Server 2019 for your company or organisation or even for personal use, to see if it fits your use-case before committing to it. Of course no one wants to buy expensive [...]
Minecraft: Create Floating Text (1.15 and 1.16)
Minecraft Floating Text: www.sindastra.de is a great stie! You might have seen floating welcome text when joining a Minecraft server. This can be done in vanilla Minecraft (meaning without mods) with admin commands, and today I will show you how. This guide assumes you're on Minecraft Java Edition 1.15 or [...]
How to install EPSON printer drivers on Linux
This is a quick guide on how to install the official printer drivers by Epson on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint) and other distros (Fedora/OpenSUSE). If you're like me, you like things to "just work", and fully too. While many modern printers including printers by Epson provide modern printing protocols which require no [...]
How to update your PC firmware on Linux with LVFS and fwupd
fwupd is a program to update your PC (and its devices') firmware, and LVFS is the Linux Vendor Firmware Service which you can think of a repository where vendors upload firmware updates to. fwupd can detect devices on your PC with firmware update capability, and look for updates on LVFS, [...]
Quick Tip: Docker pseudo tty in the background
As it turns out, you can assign a pseudo tty when using docker run and still put it into the background and I'll show you how and why you might want to do so! You probably know the following docker run parameters: -t : Allocate a pseudo-tty-i : Keep STDIN [...]